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You Can't Feed The Trolls BUT You Can HUNT Them · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today's story is about a group of internet gamers who
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  Speaker 1: played together for years, but one day, in their online world,
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  Speaker 1: the line between reality and fantasy suddenly blurred and nobody
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  Speaker 1: get into today's story. At three point thirty pm on
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  Speaker 1: July twenty seventh, twenty nineteen, a twenty two year old
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  Speaker 1: college student named Nicole logged onto her gaming computer in
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  Speaker 1: her bedroom in North Carolina. Nicole had spent the morning
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  Speaker 1: and the early part of the afternoon studying, but now
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  Speaker 1: she could finally kick back and relax and play her
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  Speaker 1: favorite video game, an online multiplayer combat game called Perfect World,
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  Speaker 1: where people battled each other as characters inspired by Chinese mythology.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect World was a pretty niche game, so not a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of people played it or even knew about it.
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  Speaker 1: But Nicole loved it, and she played it basically every
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  Speaker 1: day for the past few years was totally hooked on it,
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  Speaker 1: and in playing it, she had met about a dozen
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  Speaker 1: other people from all over the world who also were
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  Speaker 1: obsessed with this game, and together they had formed a
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  Speaker 1: virtual community and they used a messaging app called Discord
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  Speaker 1: to communicate with each other outside of the game. So
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  Speaker 1: on this particular day, after Nicole loaded up Perfect World,
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  Speaker 1: she also opened up her Discord chat and she saw
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  Speaker 1: already that several of her friends were online and they
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  Speaker 1: were all talking on the general chat inside of their server,
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  Speaker 1: and so Nicole began perusing the messas and she saw
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  Speaker 1: the general theme of the messages being passed was about
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  Speaker 1: one of the other users on their server, somebody who
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  Speaker 1: went by the username men Has. So as far as
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  Speaker 1: everyone knew on this Discord server men Haas, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: know his real name, was a college student, and he
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  Speaker 1: was basically known to be a huge troll, which meanti
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  Speaker 1: said and did really offensive things in particular on this
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  Speaker 1: Discord server just to get people's reactions because of his
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  Speaker 1: trolling behavior. He had actually been previously kicked out of
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  Speaker 1: the server and also kicked out of the game Perfect World,
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  Speaker 1: like the game they're all connected on this Discord server
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  Speaker 1: through he had been booted from both of those platforms
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  Speaker 1: in the past, but in previous occasions when that happened,
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  Speaker 1: Menhaz would plead his case and say, he's not going
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  Speaker 1: to do it anymore, He's going to behave, and eventually
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  Speaker 1: the moderators would just let him back in. And so
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  Speaker 1: currently men Haas was back on the Discord server, and
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  Speaker 1: he was back to his trolling ways. But as Nicole
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  Speaker 1: scanned through the general chat and went back and actually
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  Speaker 1: saw what menhas had been saying that day, that basically
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  Speaker 1: had stirred up everybody else on the server to say, look,
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  Speaker 1: he's back to his trolling ways. When she went back
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  Speaker 1: and actually saw what Menhaz was saying, Nicole couldn't help
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  Speaker 1: but feel like today's trolling just felt different. Menhaz was
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  Speaker 1: talking about this apparently brilliant four step plan he had
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  Speaker 1: that was going to completely revolutionize his life and basically
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  Speaker 1: set him up for big success in his life. Going forward. However,
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  Speaker 1: this plan he was talking about, this four step plan,
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  Speaker 1: was not only totally outrageous, but just seemed impossible. Like
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  Speaker 1: what he was saying he was going to do just
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  Speaker 1: didn't seem possible even by Menhaz's standards, like within his
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  Speaker 1: trolling standards, this was a bridge too far. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: even trolling. This is just weird what you're proposing. And
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  Speaker 1: so basically, the chatter on the Discord server this day
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  Speaker 1: that Nicole was seeing was how nobody believed this four
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  Speaker 1: step plan was a real thing, Like this is just
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  Speaker 1: classic Menhaz trolling. And Nicole too, she also did not
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  Speaker 1: believe this plan was serious. She did not think for
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  Speaker 1: a second Menhaz was going to do this, and so
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  Speaker 1: she just kind of rolled her eyes, ignored menhas minimized
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  Speaker 1: the Discord server, and just enjoyed playing the game Perfect World.
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  Speaker 1: And after a while, after you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: battles that she won and a couple of battles that
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  Speaker 1: she lost in this game, she paused for a second
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  Speaker 1: and noticed there was a whole bunch of new notifications
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  Speaker 1: on their Discord server. And so, because Nicole was already
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  Speaker 1: taking a break from the game. She opened up the
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  Speaker 1: Discord server to see what was going on, and right
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  Speaker 1: away she saw the main topic of discussion was once
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  Speaker 1: again Menhaz and his four step plan, but specifically, Menhaz
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  Speaker 1: had just sent a picture through the Discord server that
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  Speaker 1: apparently represented completing step one of this four step plan.
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  Speaker 1: He basically said, look, I did it. I've done one.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on to step two now, and everybody's looking at
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  Speaker 1: this picture thinking, wait a minute, he's actually doing this.
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  Speaker 1: This can't be real. And Nicole, when she looked at
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  Speaker 1: this picture, she too thought like, no way, this is
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  Speaker 1: not possible. He did not do this, and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: her first thought was, Okay, maybe this image was created
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  Speaker 1: by AI or something, or you know, maybe he pulled
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  Speaker 1: this image off a website somewhere and is pretending it's authentic.
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  Speaker 1: But it can't possibly be something he actually took a
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  Speaker 1: picture of. He couldn't have done this, and so pretty
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  Speaker 1: quickly Nicole, despite seeing this image, she agreed with the
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  Speaker 1: consensus that menhas is still just trolling us. This picture
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  Speaker 1: is not proof that he's really doing this four step plan,
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  Speaker 1: and so Nicole went back to playing Perfect World, and
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  Speaker 1: about an hour later she noticed there were all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of new notifications on her Discord server, and so once
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  Speaker 1: again she stopped her game. She opened up the Discord server,
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  Speaker 1: and once again the entire chat was dominated about menhas
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  Speaker 1: because Menhaz had sent a second picture apparently representing him
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  Speaker 1: completing the second step of his big four step plan.
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  Speaker 1: And once again everyone's saying, there's no way he's trolling us,
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  Speaker 1: as can't be real. And Nicole she looked at the
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  Speaker 1: image itself, and she too thought this has got to
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  Speaker 1: be trolling. But now she wasn't just filled with pure disbelief,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she wasn't able to just completely discard what
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  Speaker 1: was happening here, because part of her was thinking, like,
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  Speaker 1: how is Menhaz getting these hyper specific images that really
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  Speaker 1: are tethered to this exact plan he's laid out, Like
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  Speaker 1: how does he have these images? Where are they coming from? Now?
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  Speaker 1: This was back in twenty nineteen, and certainly AI technology existed,
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  Speaker 1: but not the way it does now, where you know,
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  Speaker 1: the average user can literally in seconds create hyper specific
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  Speaker 1: images using AI. In twenty nineteen, that really wasn't available
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  Speaker 1: to most people, and so really the only way Menhaz
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  Speaker 1: could potentially have these images at least in Nicole's mind,
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  Speaker 1: was he had to have pulled them off some website
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  Speaker 1: somewhere and basically pretended they were images that he took.
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  Speaker 1: And so Nicole decided she was actually going to take
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  Speaker 1: the two images he had sent and reverse image searched
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  Speaker 1: them to try to figure out where they came from,
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  Speaker 1: you know, find the website where he's pulling them from,
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  Speaker 1: because clearly these pictures are not authentic. There's no way
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  Speaker 1: Menhas actually took these photos. But when Nicole reverse image
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  Speaker 1: search both images, nothing came up. Now Nicole thought, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that does seem to suggest these are authentic pictures he
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  Speaker 1: really did take, which maybe means he's actually doing this plan,
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  Speaker 1: even though that seemed totally preposterous. Or she thought, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these images have been pulled from such an
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  Speaker 1: obscure website somewhere that I don't have access to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: finding them in a reverse image search, that maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: what it is. And so at this point Nicole told herself,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, there's got to be a reasonable explanation
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  Speaker 1: for this. But I'll tell you this, it can't be
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  Speaker 1: that Menhas is actually following through on this plan. It's
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  Speaker 1: not possible, and so once again she minimized the Discord
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  Speaker 1: server and got back into the game, but pretty quickly
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  Speaker 1: Nicole just stopped playing the game because her mind was
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  Speaker 1: totally fixated on whatever was going on with Menhas. And
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  Speaker 1: so she opened up the Discord server again and she
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  Speaker 1: saw still everybody in the chat was talking about Menhas
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  Speaker 1: and these two pictures he had sent, and basically the
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  Speaker 1: server was divided. About half the members believed this really
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  Speaker 1: was just Menha's trolling, and the other half was starting
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  Speaker 1: to think that, hey, guys, this might be real. He
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  Speaker 1: might actually be carrying out this four step plan. Those
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  Speaker 1: pictures might be real. And if that's the case, we
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  Speaker 1: have a huge problem because this plan, if he actually
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  Speaker 1: carries it out, is so completely illegal. He can't do this.
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  Speaker 1: This is not okay. And so the faction of members
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  Speaker 1: on the Discord server that was starting to sense that
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  Speaker 1: this four step plan of men Haazes might actually be
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  Speaker 1: real began to talk internally and they said, look like,
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  Speaker 1: we can't just sit here and do nothing. If Menhas
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  Speaker 1: is actually doing this, we have to stop him. This
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  Speaker 1: is not okay. And so, in fact, one of these
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  Speaker 1: members actually contacted their local police and told them, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: there's this guy on my discord server. You know, his
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  Speaker 1: username is Menhas. I don't have his actual name, but
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  Speaker 1: he's doing something that could be very bad and you
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  Speaker 1: need to look into it. And so the dispatcher said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well you know where does Menhas live? And the person
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  Speaker 1: who had called was like, well, I don't actually know.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I really don't know much about him other
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  Speaker 1: than the fact that he goes by Menhas and he
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  Speaker 1: sent these crazy pictures that could be real or not,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. And so eventually the dispatcher just said,
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  Speaker 1: look like, I get it that you're concerned, but we
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  Speaker 1: have nothing to go on here. And remember this is
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  Speaker 1: the Internet. People make stuff up all the time. And
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  Speaker 1: so pretty quickly after that, the police officer just hung
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  Speaker 1: So at this point Nicole and the other members of
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  Speaker 1: the Discord Server, who were starting to suspect that what
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  Speaker 1: Menhas was doing could be real, at this point they
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  Speaker 1: felt really alone. I mean, the local police was not
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  Speaker 1: taking this seriously, which did make sense, I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to go on, but as a result, it
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  Speaker 1: was like nobody was doing anything about what Menhas was claiming.
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  Speaker 1: And Nicole and the other members, who again were beginning
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  Speaker 1: to sense this could be real, they felt variable about
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  Speaker 1: just sitting here doing nothing, and so Nicole and a
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  Speaker 1: few other members of the Discord server decided to team
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  Speaker 1: up digitally and actually investigate Menhaz themself, try to figure
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  Speaker 1: out like who this guy is and really what's he
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  Speaker 1: up to. And so Nicole and this new investigative group
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  Speaker 1: started by combing through all the chat logs in their
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  Speaker 1: Discord server to see if Menhaz at any point had
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  Speaker 1: either intentionally or unintentionally dropped hints about his real name
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  Speaker 1: and his location. And eventually they came across a message
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  Speaker 1: where Menhaz actually said his real first name was Menhaz.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't just his username, that was his real name,
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  Speaker 1: and that was great because Menhaz was a pretty unique name.
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  Speaker 1: And so Nicole and the group thought, okay, well, if
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  Speaker 1: we find where in the world that name is somewhat common,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that will give us a rough idea of where
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  Speaker 1: to look for menhas in the world. They also knew
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  Speaker 1: that Menhaz was a college student, or at least he
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  Speaker 1: claimed to be. Now he never actually said where he
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  Speaker 1: went to college, but he would offer and in the
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  Speaker 1: Discord server tell people when he was going to be
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  Speaker 1: on the server and when he was going to be
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  Speaker 1: off the server for classes and for studying and that
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing. He would say, Okay, hey, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: on at six pm tonight, I'll be off at nine,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be back on at eight. He would give these
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  Speaker 1: specific times, and he would always use Eastern Standard Time
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  Speaker 1: when he did that, and so a natural assumption that
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  Speaker 1: Nicole and her group made was okay, very likely Menhaz
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  Speaker 1: lives in the Eastern time zone, and that time zone
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  Speaker 1: included the entire east coast of the United States, eastern
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  Speaker 1: and central Canada, and also some countries in South and
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  Speaker 1: Central America. But while that was helpful, it still created
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  Speaker 1: too broad of an area in the world for this
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  Speaker 1: group to realistically look for Menhas. It was nearly impossible
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  Speaker 1: to actually figure out where he was. But they now
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  Speaker 1: had a sense of where he could be, and they thought, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we ask somebody else in the Discord server
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  Speaker 1: if they can try to track Menhas's IP address. An
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  Speaker 1: IP address can be used to find the approximate geograph
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  Speaker 1: location of a computer, and sure enough, someone in the
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  Speaker 1: server said they could do that, and within a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes they had tracked Menhaz's computer to Toronto, Canada. However,
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  Speaker 1: right at the same time they were figuring this out,
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  Speaker 1: Menhaz sent a third picture across the discord server, a
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  Speaker 1: picture that showcased him completing step three of this four
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  Speaker 1: step plan allegedly, and for Nicole and many other members
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  Speaker 1: of this Discord server, this third picture really represented a
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  Speaker 1: big shift, because now it was getting terrifying, because, look,
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  Speaker 1: it seems pretty likely at this point that Menhaz is
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  Speaker 1: actually doing this. This is real. How could he possibly
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  Speaker 1: have these hyper specific photos that are perfectly syncd with
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  Speaker 1: this four step plan he had come up with. This
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  Speaker 1: feels real, and so Nicole she actually asked the person
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  Speaker 1: who had traced his IP address to Toronto. She said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: should we call the Toronto police and tell them what's
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  Speaker 1: going on here? You know, maybe they can go find
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  Speaker 1: him and stop him before he completes this plan. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's apparently completed three steps. There's only one step left.
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  Speaker 1: We have to stop him here. But the person who
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  Speaker 1: had tracked his IP address to Toronto said, Look, what
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  Speaker 1: are the police going to do. There's six million people
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  Speaker 1: that live in Toronto and all we have is that
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  Speaker 1: maybe his computer is in Toronto and maybe these pictures
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  Speaker 1: are real. And also, by the way, it's pretty easy
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  Speaker 1: to mask your IP address. You can use something called
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  Speaker 1: a VPN or virtual private network that when you track
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  Speaker 1: someone's IP address that has one of those working, it
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  Speaker 1: will make it seem like their addresses for example, in
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  Speaker 1: Toronto or Chicago or New York or Dallas or anywhere
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  Speaker 1: in the world, when in reality their computer is somewhere
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  Speaker 1: totally different. And so the police are not going to
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  Speaker 1: launch a manhunt based on an IP address. It's not
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent accurate. And so basically Nicole realized that
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  Speaker 1: even though they saw they are on the precipice, potentially
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  Speaker 1: of Menhas committing some horrible crime and they can't do
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  Speaker 1: anything about it because they don't really have any information
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  Speaker 1: about Menhas. And so at this point everybody on the
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  Speaker 1: disc discord server was basically begging Menhas to come clean,
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  Speaker 1: tell us these photos are fake, tell us this plan
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  Speaker 1: of yours is really just you trolling. But Menhas didn't
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  Speaker 1: do that. He doubled down and said, oh no, these
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  Speaker 1: are all real, and in fact, I'm going to complete
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  Speaker 1: step four of this plan and complete the whole process
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  Speaker 1: in thirty minutes. And after that all Nicole and the
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  Speaker 1: other members of the Discord Server could do was just
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  Speaker 1: try to convince Menhaz not to do this. Don't follow
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  Speaker 1: through with this, don't complete the plan. You gotta stop,
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  Speaker 1: it's not worth it. But menhas refused and said I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing this no matter what, And sure enough, thirty minutes later,
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  Speaker 1: Menhaz would send one final picture, the fourth picture, showcasing
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  Speaker 1: that his four step plan was now complete. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: someone from the Discord Server did call the Toronto Police.
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  Speaker 1: The following day, at about three thirty pm, police officers
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  Speaker 1: arrived outside of men Haaz's home, which it would turn
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  Speaker 1: out was located in a small town just north of Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: The IP address had been correct. By this point, it
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  Speaker 1: had now been about twenty four hours since men Haaz
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  Speaker 1: had sent the very first picture of his four step plan.
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  Speaker 1: Police knocked on the front door, having no idea what
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  Speaker 1: to expect here. They had seen the images Menhaz had
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  Speaker 1: sent on the discord Server, but at this point until
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  Speaker 1: they went inside, they had no idea if they were
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a terrible crime or a terrible joke. When
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  Speaker 1: the door opened, Menhaz himself was standing in the doorway.
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  Speaker 1: He had a totally neutral, very calm expression on his face.
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  Speaker 1: He was very gracious. He welcomed the police inside, and
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  Speaker 1: when they stepped inside, they asked him, you know what's
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  Speaker 1: going on here, and all men has said was you'll see.
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  Speaker 1: So the police walked further into the home and eventually
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  Speaker 1: made their way upstairs, and when they got up there,
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  Speaker 1: they just froze. Because it would turn out men Haaz
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  Speaker 1: was not trolling. Those pictures were not fake. He really
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  Speaker 1: had carried out that four step plan, it would turn out,
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  Speaker 1: for the past four years, men Haaz had been living
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  Speaker 1: a double life. To his friends and family. He was
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  Speaker 1: a college student studying engineering and he was on a
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  Speaker 1: path to great success, when in reality, he dropped out
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  Speaker 1: of college in his first year and just pretended to
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  Speaker 1: go to school every day, when in reality, he would
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  Speaker 1: just go to a local mall and hang out there,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: and then in the evenings, when school was over and
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: he would come back home, he would just immerse himself
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: in video games, specifically that Perfect World game. That's what
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  Speaker 1: he did. He just went to the mall and played
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  Speaker 1: video games and lied to his friends and family. But
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  Speaker 1: July twenty seventh, twenty nineteen, the day Menhas put his
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  Speaker 1: four step plan into action. Was literally the last day
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  Speaker 1: he could maintain this ruse because the next day, July
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth, twenty nineteen, was the day men Haas was
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to graduate from his college, and so his friends
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  Speaker 1: and family were all expecting to be there and to
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  Speaker 1: see this amazing ceremony, and so to deal with the
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  Speaker 1: fact that his real life and his fake life were
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: about to collide, Menhas came up with his four step
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  Speaker 1: plan and he literally told the members of the Discord
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  Speaker 1: Server about his big plan, but nobody believed him because
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: he was always trolling people. It just seemed like, oh,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: this is made up, another one of Menhaz's lies. But
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  Speaker 1: he was not lying. It was all true. Those pictures
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  Speaker 1: that he sent across were absolutely authentic. He took those
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  Speaker 1: pictures and they did represent completing each step in the plan.
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  Speaker 1: The first picture was of his mother, the second picture
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  Speaker 1: was of his grandmother, the third picture was of his sister,
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  Speaker 1: and the fourth picture was of his father. And in
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  Speaker 1: each picture those people were dead because Menhaz had spent
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the day methodically killing his entire family to prevent them
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  Speaker 1: finding out about his lie. He hit them over the
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  Speaker 1: head with a crowbar and then slit their throats and
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  Speaker 1: took a picture posted it to Discord. By the time
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  Speaker 1: someone from Discord finally got in touch with the Toronto Police,
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  Speaker 1: it was too late. Men Haas had obliterated his entire family.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Men Haas ultimately pleaded guilty to four counts of murder
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  Speaker 1: and was sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility
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  Speaker 1: of parole after forty years. Thank you so much for watching.
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